Microsoft will be raising the price of its User client-access licenses (CALs) for a number of its on-premises server products, including Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint and System Center, by 13 percent.

Mobile teamwork and collaboration is challenging. Cortado, in the business of making this easier, offers its Corporate Server 7.2, which adds native IOS printing and intelligent team file storage and sharing.

October's patches are described in eight bulletins and address problems in Windows, Office, SharePoint Server, Silverlight, and Internet Explorer. One of the IE bugs has been exploited in the wild for some time now.

Apple recently received a patent for a new collaboration system, including a collaboration server, a special interface and even pen input. Apple iPen? It appears ready to go up against Microsoft's PixelSense tabletop collaboration solution.

If you're using Outlook.com or any of the Office 2013 applications, you'll find the new SharePoint 2013 user interface familiar. Here's a tour of Microsoft's updated document management/collaboration server.

Microsoft's document management/collaboration server has been revamped to deliver a more consumerised experience, complete with a 'modern' look and feel, cloud storage, social networking and an app development ecosystem.